Edited by M. Z. Boxhorn, to whom the dedication is addressed. Cf. Willems

The Elzeviers published 4 distinct editions under this date. The first has [24] prelim. p. and [38] p. at end; the 3 reimpressions each have [16] prelim. p. and [34] p. at end. On p. 216 the first and second reimpressions have a Medusa tailpiece (Rahir 58); in the third the Medusa has been replaced by a typographical ornament (Rahir 57). The first and second reimpressions are distinguished by the running title at head of the last page of the index: the first has Index rerum memorabilium; the second has

Index rerum memorab. This issue is the first, or original edition. Cf. Willems

Illustrated, engraved t.p. signed: Cor. Cl. Duysent

Headpieces; tailpiece; initial

T.p. verso and p. [34] at end blank

Error in paging: no. 245 misprinted 145

Copinger, H.B. Elzevier Press

Willems, A. Elzevier

Berghman, G. Impressions Elzeviriennes

Rahir, E. Les Elzevier

Includes index

With this is bound: Q. Cvrtii Rvfi, Historiarum libri (Leyden, 1633)

Armorial bookplate pasted on first leaf verso: The honourable Charles Hope Weir of Craigie Hall & Blackwood; on flyleaf, signature of E. Gordon Duff, Edinburgh, Jan. 1919

Bound in contemporary vellum with linen ties

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